Aaron Sorkin quotes

Socializing on the internet is to socializing, what reality TV is to reality. (Aaron Sorkin)
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like. View quote
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand. View quote
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn. View quote
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act. View quote
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person. View quote
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable. View quote
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change. View quote
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly. View quote
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper. View quote
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. (Aaron Sorkin)
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for. View quote
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Decisions are made by those who show up. View quote
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. View quote
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. View quote
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you. View quote
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. View quote
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera. View quote
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight. View quote
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. View quote
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated. (Aaron Sorkin)
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. View quote
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep. View quote
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has. View quote
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Is it (Sports Night) a comedy or a drama? That's generally not a question I try and answer for myself before I'm going to write something. The example I would use is, if you're driving in your car and you're listening to a rock 'n' roll station on the radio and a song comes on, and in the song you hear elements of jazz and folk and you hear strings in there ... it's not necessary to answer the question, "Is this jazz, is this folk, or is this rock?" View quote
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